Author: Roxana Safipour

When you walk into any BJJ school, you’ll see a variety of belt colors wrapped around practitioners’ waists. What is the significance of one’s belt color? Let’s take a walk through the belt colors in BJJ and learn the significance of each rank. White…

Improving your technique in jiu-jitsu is a game of inches. The first time you tie a white belt around your waist, you know nothing, and as you begin your jiu-jitsu journey your technique improves by leaps and bounds. But once you reach an intermediate level,…

Losing hurts. I know the feeling well. I’ve lost exactly 57 jiu-jitsu matches. I’ve also won more than a few, but today I want to talk about the losses. Back when I was a white belt, whenever I lost a match, the painful narrative in…